You may want to try volunteering for a non-profit organization that has a computer network - that will let you get the hands-on experience (enough to fill space on a resume with basically-true material and thereby bluff your way into an interview) you need to kickstart your career. Check with the Red Cross, Salvation Army, media centers, your local school district. Or check with your local vo-tech college - they might need (albiet low-paid) assistants/instructors for some of their classes.
The key point really is to be creative - the qualifications in a job posting are usually just a filter (since they recieve hundreds of resumes) to narrow down the number of interviews. Your goal is to get an interview - then you have to show the company what you can offer them that the other candidates can't.
That said, I wouldn't advise overinflating your resume to get into an interview - "they" hate that.
If all this fails, you may want to consider a career in nursing. Very lucrative field, very difficult to outsource/offshore.
"One last beef: artificial gravity. Either lose it, or base the thing on a planet and never leave it."
Artificial gravity on a entry-level TV budget? Are you kidding?
So let me get this straight - you can accept FTL space travel, "reaver" space pirates, and the transition of bluegrass to spacegrass, but you have a problem with artificial gravity?
From 1927 (Lindbergh's first flight across the Atlantic) to 1937, air transportation developed from tiny cottage industries to a major niche, including regular transatlantic service.
That's because there's something worth visiting at the destination. How far would the industry have developed if they were flying to a desert island with no commerical resources (e.g. outlet malls, food, oxygen, cultural attractions, relatives).
Cars took all of 15 years to gain widespread popularity.
Cars give you freedom. People can own cars. Selling cars is profitable. None of these things can be said about rockets and space planes. Airplanes would be a better analogy, but not much - they are still orders of magnitude less expensive than spacecraft will EVER be.
That said, I think the most viable scenarios for commercial space exploitation involve 1) building a space elevator to reduce costs-to-orbit and 2) developing He3 as a fuel source. I don't think either will happen in my lifetime, and I'm not that old...
It all falls back to how much money you can make - that's the essence of commercialization.
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You may want to try volunteering for a non-profit organization that has a computer network - that will let you get the hands-on experience (enough to fill space on a resume with basically-true material and thereby bluff your way into an interview) you need to kickstart your career. Check with the Red Cross, Salvation Army, media centers, your local school district. Or check with your local vo-tech college - they might need (albiet low-paid) assistants/instructors for some of their classes.
The key point really is to be creative - the qualifications in a job posting are usually just a filter (since they recieve hundreds of resumes) to narrow down the number of interviews. Your goal is to get an interview - then you have to show the company what you can offer them that the other candidates can't.
That said, I wouldn't advise overinflating your resume to get into an interview - "they" hate that.
If all this fails, you may want to consider a career in nursing. Very lucrative field, very difficult to outsource/offshore.
"Personally, I find that in any city, there is never a shortage of bookstores." Yes - but is there a shortage of INDEPENDENT bookstores? Probably.
"One last beef: artificial gravity. Either lose it, or base the thing on a planet and never leave it."
Artificial gravity on a entry-level TV budget? Are you kidding? So let me get this straight - you can accept FTL space travel, "reaver" space pirates, and the transition of bluegrass to spacegrass, but you have a problem with artificial gravity?
Serenity Now!
From 1927 (Lindbergh's first flight across the Atlantic) to 1937, air transportation developed from tiny cottage industries to a major niche, including regular transatlantic service.
That's because there's something worth visiting at the destination. How far would the industry have developed if they were flying to a desert island with no commerical resources (e.g. outlet malls, food, oxygen, cultural attractions, relatives).
Cars took all of 15 years to gain widespread popularity.
Cars give you freedom. People can own cars. Selling cars is profitable. None of these things can be said about rockets and space planes. Airplanes would be a better analogy, but not much - they are still orders of magnitude less expensive than spacecraft will EVER be.
That said, I think the most viable scenarios for commercial space exploitation involve 1) building a space elevator to reduce costs-to-orbit and 2) developing He3 as a fuel source. I don't think either will happen in my lifetime, and I'm not that old...
It all falls back to how much money you can make - that's the essence of commercialization.
Hell, just move to Phoenix. Probably cost less.